CFP: George Bernard Shaw and History (3/15/07; MLA '07)

CFP for a special session at MLA 2007 Chicago on"George Bernard Shaw and History"

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): Shaw and problems inliterary history and/or theater history; history and genre; historiography andmetahistory; religion, theology, and history; Shaw on scientific,philosophical, and theoretical approaches to history / scientific,philosophical, and theoretical approaches to history on Shaw; politics,economics, ideology, and history; periodization: Shaw on the historicalperiods (classical antiquity, middle ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, etc.) /periodizing Shaw (Shaw as modernist? anti-modernist? counter-modernist?);historicism; presentism; apocalypse and the end of history; posthistory;prediction, prophecy, and the history of the future.

Sponsored by the International Shaw Society (www.shawsociety.org). Deadline forabstracts and short CV is March 15, 2007. Send to Charles Del Dotto(cjd_at_duke.edu).